Paper bottle



- (No Model.)

A. O. WILLIAMS.

PAPER BOTTLE.

Patented Dec. 6,1881.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

ALPHONSO G. WILLIAMS, OF CAMBRIDGEPORT, MASSACHUSETTS.

PAPER BOTTLE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 250,469, dated December 6, 1881.

Application filed July 11, 1881.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ALPHONSO G.WILLIAMS, of Oambridgeport, county of Middlesex, and State of h/Iassachusetts, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Paper Bottles, of

which the following description, in connection with the accompanying drawings, is a specification.

This invention has for its object the production from paper of a bottle-like receptacle for liquids or solids or dry substances, such as baking and other powders. A bottle of this class is lighter than and cannot be broken as easily as one of glass, and is cheaper than glass, wood, or tin.

The invention consists in a paper bottle having a thicker paperboard top to fit the sides, and provided with an opening for a stopper, combined with a paper stopper havi g a tubular neck to tit in said opening, and a polygonal head, all as hereinafter specified and claimed.

Figure 1 represents, in elevation, a paper bottle embodying my invention; Fig. 2, a- Vertical section thereof. Fig. 3 shows, on a smaller scale, the shape of the blank from which the main part of the bottle is made; and Fig. at is a top view of the stopper.

The main part ofthe bottle, s herein shown, is composed of a single piece of paper-board or blank cut into the shape represented in Fig. 3. The bottom of the bottle is formed by superimposing the projecting portions 2 3 5 7 of the blank. The part 4, at one end of the blank, laps upon the face of the portion 8, constituting one side of the bottle. This blank is not of my invention, and instead of it I mightemploy any other suitably-shaped blank to constitute the side walls, 6, and bottom 6, of the bottle, or I might mold the same, in square or circular form, from paper-pulp in a proper machine.

- At the upper end of the bottle, and within its sides 6, I have added, as I prefer to do, a

re-enforcing piece, I).

The top 0 of the bottle, provided with a suitable central hole or passage for the reception of the stopper, is composed ota thick piece of card-board, preferably one-eighth of an inch or more in thickness, shouldered about its edges, as at 6, to rest upon and extend within the bottle-sides, as in Fig. 2, and within the re-enforce b. This bottle and top, united at its (No model.)

seams and made water-proof by a suitable water-proof mixture, cement or varnish, so as to enable it to resist the passage of a liquid through it, may subsequently be covered externally with paper, as at d, to ornament it, and it may, if desired, be coated and covered internally with a water-proof film or paper.

The cement between the outer covering, 01, and paper a may be water-proof or water-repellent.

The stopper is composed of a hollow or tubular neck, f, and a square or many-sided piece of card-board, g, recessed or shouldered to hold the tubular neck or collarf, as shown in Fig. 2/

This stopper is covered externally with paper, as at h, and made water-proof. The exterior of the neckfis made conical. The neckf, as itisinserted within thecorrespondingly-shaped opening in the top, is turned a little axially, thus setting the stopper very firmly in the said top, the neck springing a little and assisting materially in forming a close liquid-tight joint. The square or many-sided head t of the stopper enables it to be grasped firmly when turningor twisting the stopper into or removing it from the top a.

To produce a practical bottle of paper the top must be not less than One-eighth of an inch in thickness, and preferably somewhat more, or else the pressure between the stopper and top will be insufficient to cause the same to adhere or remain in close contact; and, further, a paper bottle with its top only as thick as would be the sides of a practical bottle would not afford sufiicient rigidity to permit the stopper to be inserted or turned therein as closely as needed.

I claim- The paper bottle having the thicker paperboard top to lit the top of the SldB pieces, and provided with an opening tor a stopper, combined with the paper stopper having a tubular neck and many-sided or angular head 9', as and for the purpose set forth.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in thepresence of two subscribing witnesses.

ALPHONSO O. \VILLIAMS.

Witnesses:

G. W. GREGORY, B. J. NoYEs. 

